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Continuous Bernoulli priors and certainty (P(Xn+1​=1∣X1​=⋯=Xn​=1)=n+2n+1​)

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With a uniform prior distribution on a Bernoulli chance θ, n successes yield posterior density (n+1)θn. Integration gives next-trial success probability (n+1)/(n+2), but the singleton θ=1 retains probability zero. More generally, ordinary conditioning with a finite integrable likelihood and positive finite normalization constant preserves absolute continuity, so a continuous prior does not acquire a new atom at certainty from a finite sample.

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